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Date:      Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:55:19 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how to rename a file with "!", "?", and other strange chars?
Message-ID:  <20050918195519.GA83688@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050918085735.GA31527@holestein.holy.cow>
References:  <20050917232747.GA76966@thought.org> <20050918085735.GA31527@holestein.holy.cow>

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:57:35AM -0400, Parv wrote:
> in message <20050917232747.GA76966@thought.org>,
> wrote Gary Kline thusly...
> >
> > I scarfed up a slew of php files that are around 100 bytes in
> > strlen and with "\ " and other non-shell-friendly bytes.  Is there
> > a way to use perl to chop off the first N bytes?
> > 
> > For example, a file many be named 00001\ 00002xyz\?00003=Test.php.
> > What's the most logical way to perl this file to "Test.php?
> 
> Perl:
>   http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=303814
>   http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=277174
> 

	I've just signed aboard as a novice perlmonk...

	gary


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   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix




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